Most fruit trees require full sun, which means at least 6 to 8 hours of direct sunlight every day to fruit, but they'll fruit ...

Getting back into the garden, checking out plants just waking up, inspecting branches then finding shiny little globs on a twig. Scale insects are a sneaky, little-detected, piercing, sucking pest ...

In late fall they fly back to the plum trees and produce another generation that mates and lays the eggs. The pest does present a significant economic problem for commercial growers, and I have seen ...

Can you help me with two damson plum trees? I purchased these trees bare-root and planted them probably five years ago. They have flourished and now stand 8 to 10 feet tall. I have had them ...

Unfortunately, many pests love fruit trees and can easily damage leaves and spoil harvests. However, there are ways to get rid of these problematic visitors—without using harmful pesticides. For ...

Winter is here and yet we’re still getting plenty of gardening questions to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s Extension Service. OSU Extension faculty ...